Twelve provincial and territorial partners, together with CANARIE, collectively form Canada.s National Research and Education Network (NREN). This powerful digital infrastructure connects Canada.s researchers, educators and innovators provincially, nationally, and globally to the data, tools, colleagues, and classrooms that fuel the discoveries that shape our lives.

The Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks, Newfoundland and Labrador (ACORN-NL) is dedicated to the implementation and formalization of a regional advanced network in Newfoundland and Labrador that will link the post-secondary institutions, their major research centres and the K-12 system.

It will facilitate the research activities of these institutions and complement the innovations and broadband strategies of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.